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Those tools include caps, linked to borrowers’ characteristics, on loan-to-value ratios;
direct
limits on currency and maturity mismatches in financial institutions’ balance sheets; limits on their balance sheets’ interconnectedness; and minimum reserve requirements for specific financial instruments.
Indeed, the OECD ranks Japan last among member states in terms of regulatory restrictiveness with respect to inward foreign
direct
investment.
Devaluation of China’s currency may have a positive
direct
impact on Hong Kong because Hong Kong is a net importer from Mainland China.
They continue to think as they have always done, because it is in their
direct
self-interest to do all they can to preserve the militarized state of a decadent era.
And if it is a
direct
institutional supervisor, as well as being the lender of last resort, there are different considerations again.
In many cases, governments will also need to design food-security programs such as social-insurance schemes and
direct
transfers that target the poor.
Meanwhile,
direct
taxation of corporations and individuals has tended to decline – despite the moot claim that lower
direct
taxation ensures investment and growth.
In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources: domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes),
direct
taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties).
In many countries, tax reform has already significantly increased the share of
direct
taxes in overall revenue.
Finally, international competition for inward foreign
direct
investment may lead governments to reduce tax rates and increase concessions for foreign investors.
Obama should be eager to stress that India’s exclusion from the TPP is a matter solely of geography – India does not abut the Pacific – and that the US wants to increase bilateral trade and
direct
investment by American firms.
Nixon’s defiance was direct, and the result was disastrous.
Among G-8 countries, only the UK is making a bold effort to increase its overall aid budget and
direct
a significant portion to Africa.
And it has a
direct
impact on European exports to the US.
Even in the case where the
direct
effect is small – the decoupling assumption – the US slowdown still can have a substantial net impact on European exports because of its indirect effect on Asian imports from Europe.
The new measures also helped to attract large capital inflows and foreign
direct
investment, underpinning a dramatic rise in foreign-currency reserves, from $14.8 billion in 2004 to more than $36 billion by the end of 2010.
These governments already spend tax money on
direct
foreign aid.
Also on your to-do list: Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, and Twitter
direct
messages.
The one billion Indians who have signed up for an Aadhaar, their electronic identity card, now enjoy
direct
access to welfare benefits without bureaucratic barriers.
The one billion Chinese who use their smartphones to make mobile payments now enjoy
direct
access to all kinds of consumer products that enhance their lifestyles.
In 2008-2009, people who migrated from Eastern Europe to the United Kingdom paid 37% more in
direct
and indirect taxes than they received in benefits and public services.
Mothers bring a direct, emotional, and personal component to this age-old struggle, insisting on their children’s existence as citizens and human beings whose rights must be upheld.
Thus, by permitting two clearing banks to access renminbi onshore, Chinese officials are effectively subsidizing their London and Frankfurt operations and encouraging
direct
sterling and euro trades.
In its most recent survey of foreign-exchange markets, in April 2013, the Bank for International Settlements found that renminbi-dollar trades averaged $113 billion a day, whereas
direct
renminbi-euro trades totaled a mere $1 billion, while
direct
renminbi-sterling trades amounted to even less.
Twenty-first-century financial technology will facilitate
direct
trading in a variety of different currencies, eliminating the need and custom of routing virtually all international transactions through the dollar.
But Barroso’s declaration directs discourse relating to the democratic deficit in a specific direction – one that will likely resemble the European Parliament’s transition from an appointment-based system to
direct
election.
The United Nations and the World Bank predict that the
direct
and indirect effects of the economic meltdown will be felt in the developing world for a long time to come.
Even if all profits from
direct
foreign investment in South Korea are counted as payments for knowledge, the total is still less that 1.5% of the increase in the country's GDP.
In that case, we would not only reap dishonor, but also, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, raise to extreme levels all of our present dangers, starting with a dramatic increase in the tide of refugees, most of whom have fled Syria as a
direct
consequence of the world’s nonintervention.
By contrast, the president has no serious say in foreign policy, which is under the Supreme Leader’s
direct
supervision.
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